An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

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Games are often played as an escape, and what could be more different from the technology and screens of the modern world than the tranquility of rural medieval life? While some medieval games focus ...

(CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is ...

Medieval Europe was the perfect breeding ground for disease — overcrowded towns, open sewers, contaminated water, and no understanding of bacteria. People lived among filth, rats, and rotting waste, ...

What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...

Medieval life was fragile in ways that feel absurd by modern standards. People routinely died from minor injuries, infections, animals, household accidents, and everyday routines. This episode ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While The Sims has become a series known for controlling the lives of little computer people as they putter around little computer suburbia, the next ...

We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...